Question

A tv news reporter once stated that a person was electrocuted when 20,000 volts of electricity surged through his body. What is wrong with this description? What was it that surged through his body?.

Answer 1

Current doesn't surge or travel like water through the body, instead it is the electrons that move and make current. The signals sent inside our body are also in the form of electric current but meager to what is 20,000v means. In this case, the body couldn't survive and the 'current' formed inside the body met with the resistance of flesh, and as result gave heat burns. But above all the electricity doesn't flow, it's the electrons that move and make current inside the body.

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